The Otter application is designed to help users save time and stay organized by condensing a one-hour meeting into a 30-second summary. It does this by transcribing all types of conversations, including meetings, interviews, lectures, and everyday voice conversations, in real time. This means that users can get automated notes for in-person meetings, as well as virtual meetings on platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams.
The application has several key features, including an AI chat that can provide answers and even help write emails. It also serves as a meeting note taker and offers real-time transcription services. Users can also record audio and have it transcribed live, as well as use the app as an automated meeting note taker, voice memo recorder, and summarizer. Additionally, the AI Channels feature allows for instant chat on various channels, making it easy to communicate and collaborate with others.
The Otter app has many uses, including saving time with automatic note-taking, keeping teams in sync by sharing notes and action items, and recording and transcribing various types of conversations, such as interviews, lectures, podcasts, videos, webinars, and keynotes. It can also provide live captioning for those with accessibility needs.
Users can easily record and transcribe live conversations with just one tap, using the widget or shortcut feature. The app also offers high accuracy transcription in real time, as well as the ability to highlight key points and insert photos of whiteboard discussions or slides. Users can also scroll back to grab a quote or revisit a specific point, and can input audio using the built-in mic or a Bluetooth device.
The Otter app also uses AI to enrich notes, automatically punctuating, capitalizing, and breaking paragraphs. It can also identify speakers after some training, and even capture slides during virtual team meetings. After all team meetings, the app can also provide an automated summary.
Users can easily share and collaborate on notes by starting a meeting recording within a group to share the transcript live. They can also invite team members to view, edit, and highlight collaboratively, and can add comments and assign action items within the Takeaways panel. The app also allows for external sharing via links.
The Otter app offers several useful features for searching and playback, including the ability to search the text to find specific information without having to scrub through the entire audio. Users can also adjust playback speeds, follow along with highlighted words, and tap on any word to jump to that spot in the audio.
Users can also edit and highlight text, correcting any errors and tagging speakers to label paragraphs and train the app to identify meeting speakers. They can also easily highlight sentences with just one tap.
The app also allows for organization and export of conversations and notes into personal folders, as well as the ability to copy to clipboard or share directly into other apps. Users can also export text as PDF, TXT, or SRT, and export audio as MP3.
The Otter app also offers the ability to import and sync audio and video files, as well as sync with calendars to get reminders to record team meetings and auto-title notes. Users can also import contacts for easier sharing, and the app automatically backs up data to the cloud for secure access from any device.
Some additional features are available with the Otter Pro version, including bulk export, more playback speeds, and the ability to skip silence. The app requires Android 6.0 or higher, an internet connection for transcribing, and account creation. The company takes security and privacy seriously, and users have full control over their data, including the ability to permanently delete it. For more information, users can visit the Otter website or contact support through various channels.